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Title: (Radiological assessments of radionuclide releases)

Abstract

As a consequence of the Chernobyl accident, data have been obtained throughout the Northern Hemisphere on the concentrations of radionuclides in air, vegetation, soil, water, and foodstuffs that could be important means of human exposure. At the IAEA's invitation, the traveler reviewed recently published data and handbook summaries. The traveler evaluated the need for revising the default values recommended in Chapter 5, Terrestrial and Aquatic Food Chain Transport,'' of IAEA Safety Series No. 57. All attempts at revision were made to keep the mathematical complexity of the models to a minimum without substantial underestimation of dose to critical population subgroups. The traveler also served as chairman of the Multiple Pathways Working Group of the Coordinated Research Program on VAMP. This group has been established to test predictions of models assessing multiple exposure pathways potentially leading to human exposure to {sup 137}Cs. Testing is carried out for major components of assessment models that predict deposition, environmental transport, food chain bioaccumulation, and subsequent uptake and retention in the human body and dose due to exposure to external gamma radiation.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
Sponsoring Org.:
DOE/ER
OSTI Identifier:
6404987
Report Number(s):
ORNL/FTR-3850
ON: DE91005986
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-84OR21400
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; CESIUM 137; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE PATHWAY; FOOD CHAINS; RADIONUCLIDE KINETICS; HUMAN POPULATIONS; RADIATION DOSES; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; AIR; AUSTRIA; BIOLOGICAL ACCUMULATION; MEETINGS; PLANTS; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; SOILS; TRAVEL; UPTAKE; WATER; ALKALI METAL ISOTOPES; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CESIUM ISOTOPES; DOSES; ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT; EUROPE; FLUIDS; GASES; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; ISOTOPES; MASS TRANSFER; MONITORING; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; POPULATIONS; RADIOISOTOPES; WESTERN EUROPE; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; 540230* - Environment, Terrestrial- Radioactive Materials Monitoring & Transport- (1990-); 540330 - Environment, Aquatic- Radioactive Materials Monitoring & Transport- (1990-)

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Hoffman, F.O. (Radiological assessments of radionuclide releases). United States: N. p., 1990. Web. doi:10.2172/6404987.
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@article{osti_6404987,
title = {(Radiological assessments of radionuclide releases)},
author = {Hoffman, F.O.},
abstractNote = {As a consequence of the Chernobyl accident, data have been obtained throughout the Northern Hemisphere on the concentrations of radionuclides in air, vegetation, soil, water, and foodstuffs that could be important means of human exposure. At the IAEA's invitation, the traveler reviewed recently published data and handbook summaries. The traveler evaluated the need for revising the default values recommended in Chapter 5, Terrestrial and Aquatic Food Chain Transport,'' of IAEA Safety Series No. 57. All attempts at revision were made to keep the mathematical complexity of the models to a minimum without substantial underestimation of dose to critical population subgroups. The traveler also served as chairman of the Multiple Pathways Working Group of the Coordinated Research Program on VAMP. This group has been established to test predictions of models assessing multiple exposure pathways potentially leading to human exposure to {sup 137}Cs. Testing is carried out for major components of assessment models that predict deposition, environmental transport, food chain bioaccumulation, and subsequent uptake and retention in the human body and dose due to exposure to external gamma radiation.},
doi = {10.2172/6404987},
journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Dec 28 00:00:00 EST 1990},
month = {Fri Dec 28 00:00:00 EST 1990}
}
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